I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
Writers have to be observant. Every nuance, every inflection in a voice, the quality of air, even - they all get mixed up in this soup of the story developing in our minds.
One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'
I started writing more with my voice in mind.
When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.
I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.